I'm Maria Konnikova. And I'm Nate Silver. And our new podcast, Risky Business, is a show about making better decisions. We're both journalists who moonlight as poker players. And that's the lens we're going to use to approach this entire show. We're going to be discussing everything from high-stakes poker to personal questions. Like whether I should call a plumber or fix my shower myself. And of course,

we'll be talking about the election too. Listen on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

you listen to podcasts. Matt Gates for Attorney General, people are up in arms. We will discuss

it at length. Congressman Chip Roy is here. We'll ask his opinion of it. Michael Knowles joins us. And the economy, it's kind of bad. And Peter Saint-Age needs to explain what's happening. All that's coming up on I'm right. Okay, so let's have a talk about Matt Gates for Attorney General.

Since the news has dropped that Donald Trump's pick for Matt Gates as Attorney General,

the world has been on fire. The political world

has been on fire. You have half the people, this is on the right. Forget about the left.

We'll get to them, but half the people on the right are freaking out. He's not qualified.

This is crazy. Everyone on left on the left is freaking out. This guy's insane. Half the people on

the right absolutely love it. This is exactly

what we need. So allow me to just lay it out for you here as clearly as I possibly can.

And I should probably put a little warning label on what I'm about to say. If you are a Matt

Gates lover or a Matt Gates hater,

you will probably be offended by something I'm about to say,

and I don't care.

That's just kind of how I do it.

I speak directly, so here's what it is.

Pause on that.

Let me tell you a little story,

because this is going to apply to my opinion on Matt Gates.

This is a little brief story here.

One of the last things I ever did with my old man before he passed away recently is we went fishing.

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